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UN Environment Programme (UNEP)
Global cooperation delivered environmental gains in 2025: UNEP report
The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) released its 2025 Annual Report today, highlighting progress made last year on key environmental challenges through international cooperation despite ongoing global geopolitical tensions.
UN Environment Programme (UNEP)
UNEP launches US$100 million programme to accelerate climate, nature action
The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Global Environment Facility (GEF), together with the Development Bank of Latin …
United Nations Environment Programme
Resumed fifth session of negotiations on a global plastic pollution treaty opens in Geneva
The second part of the fifth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to develop an international legally binding …
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
What is the international agreement to protect the high seas and why is it important?
This week, delegates from around the world will gather in New York City to discuss what has been …
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24 February 2025
Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA)
GAIA calls for greater accountability, inclusiveness, transparency in Plastics Treaty Process
16 February 2025
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
How the pact to protect the ozone layer is helping counter climate change
1 September 2024
UN Environment Programme (UNEP)
A regional agreement aims to save a tropical paradise in trouble
24 August 2024
United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI)
G20 recommendations: advancing a nature-positive economy and just transition
17 August 2024
United Nations Environment Programme
As landscapes heal, Nepal’s most iconic animals stage a comeback
6 August 2024
Zoological Society of London
A window of opportunity for climate change and biodiversity
3 June 2024
Asean Centre for Biodiversity
Asean, UNDP launch marine conservation project
18 May 2023
Plastic Credit Exchange (PCX)
Plastic Credit Exchange (PCX) releases position paper: How plastic credits are supporting Global Plastics Treaty
20 November 2019
The Economist Intelligence Unit
The Asian economy will be 2.6% smaller by 2050 due to lack of climate resilience
3 July 2015
World Ocean Council
Governments advance new legally binding law of the sea agreement
6 May 2015
Greenpeace Southeast Asia
PH President Aquino told: Do not forget the Illegal Canadian wastes
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